The sensuality and wealth-focus of marriage is powerfully distracting.

The partner's own agency, behaviors and personality may have inordinate influence upon the marriage agreement itself.

The spouse, despite appearances = rather completely in control of the marriage.

Career

Zukra = karaka for agreements and bargaining.

Zukra = karaka for relationships of every variety.

Zukra-7 certainly supports the career in 10th-from-10th. The partner for either gender but specifically the wife for a male may be a significant asset in career advance via the partner's ability to form career-enhancing relationships with others involved in
one's line of professional work (10) .

Traditionally, the wife of a male who enjoys Zukra-7 = special inclination to form personal, aesthetically pleasurable relationships with the ladies attached to the instrumentally important men in her husband's profession.

For either gender, Zukra-7 is an exceptionally beneficial placement for political careers for which strategic social entertaining (Zukra) and diplomatic relations (Zukra) are essential to career ascendance.

existentialist philosopherJean-Paul Sartre = career supported by professional mention from his equal partner Second Sex 1908-1986Simone de Beauvoir

In the masculine nativity, not normally favorable for marriage when Zukra = swakshetra. Often the wife is a professional maker of
agreements.

for masculine nativity, the first life-partner = pretty and pale-complected (relative to the gene pool), per Zukra's rashi.

In a feminine nativity, gives a lovely partner (of either gender) who has strong aesthetic qualities, e.g. the partner is a diplomat, designer, artist or musician. The female native loves to match and pair people and things, always seeking harmony; taking pleasure to re-arrange and bargain for new agreements. She may have excellent aesthetic or arrangement skills, or abilities in commercial negotiation.

Naturally, drishti from
uncomfortable graha can alter this pleasant outcome.

Drishti from Shani may add fearfulness, miserliness, and scarcity thinking; also Shani adds capacity to act as a pairing agent in large organizations.

Drishti from Rahu may cause sensual excesses with Ketu, Zukra in 7 becomes eccentric, wandering in search of pleasures but never satisfied.

Drishti from Mangala is intensely sexualizing.

Add drishti from Surya, and the female may become overly concerned with her ability to attract attention.

Zukra-7 for female = native enjoys creating and re-balancing contractual relationships, but this is not itself a threat to her marriage if there is a professional outlet for this love of constantly balancing the scales . For the
wife-figure's overall marriage prognosis, see Guru and Shani.

Zukra/7 in the masculine nativity karako bhavo nashto gives too much acquisitive, sensualizing, or negotiating energy to the spouse.

She is prone to over-enjoy the pleasures of material luxury. Ironically, she may seem insatiable even with the karaka for satisfaction = Zukra = so prominent in the otherwise dignified marriage Sthana .

Often, a husband meets the life-partner (Zukra) in a
setting characterized as bargaining, deal-making,
arrangement, crafting of trust and troth, seeking terms
of agreement, settlement after disagreement, balancing,
harmonizing, match-making, or legal negotiation. The
initial meeting may be arranged by advocates. The couple
often live in carefully constructed harmonious
arrangement stabilized (4th-from-4th) by equitable terms
of the agreement.

Luxurious (Zukra-Laxmi) wealth may
be rendered through contracts and negotiations. masculine nativity is attracted to women who are attorneys, negotiators, mediators, facilitators, brokers, go-betweens, and contract-makers.
Affinity for the attorney's profession due to its daily
practice of seeking agreement. Enjoys making deals. If the wife is not a licensed lawyer she practices the same skills regardless.

Zukra-yuti-Ketu-7
suggests that the life partner may be a gracious deal-maker but
may lack a sense of purpose in doing so. Zukra-yuti-Rahu, an exotic wife, often very beautiful but prey to the compliments of those who wish to seduce her.

Affluence

monetary wealth comes from marriage, normally via the direct involvement of the spouse. End of marriage is often the end of the money.

Tastes and aesthetic preferences

Gifts

Selecting a gift for the native with Zukra in 7?

These folk enjoy pleasures of harmonious relationships and balanced design in all things.

Accouterments of the designing life, such as gracious appointments for the entertaining rooms or other luxurious items of art and music which enhance the refinement of one's diplomatic skills, will be much appreciated gifts.

In partnerships,
nativities of either gender with Zukra-7 may prefer a feminine
balancing mate who is

highly agreeable * at least in words

a skilled adapter, arranger, advocate

naturally interested in maintaining and developing the value of trust in partnership

the most valuable asset in her life is her marriage partner

accommodating personality, seeking harmony through compromise

a gracious negotiator, able to balance her life in ways which enhance the marriage

non-confrontational, even in times of severe imbalance-seeking-a-remedy or great stress

sweet lies and vague, indirect implications are much preferable to confrontation when Zukra occupies the marriage
sthana

delights in finding agreements which further the mutual interests of each party

being accompanied by her makes
one appear balanced and attractive in social settings

in the professional classes, the female mate is often an attorney.

In all classes, the female mate has prominent abilities as an advocate, arranger, harmonizer, negotiator, builder of trusts and agreements, go-between, match-maker, bargainer, and balancer.

The couple often meet in the context of an arranged introduction, a bargaining deal-making event, or a successful settlement of conflicts.

The feminine nativity with Zukra-7

may value relationships and environments that contain, and appreciate in herself the qualities =

Characteristics of the Environment where ones meets the life-partner(s):

balancing and harmonizing

gracious design and ornamentation

political diplomacy, embassy

match-making, marriage broker, yenta

law-courts and legal matters

consulting and counseling

attorneys and advisors

bargaining and negotiations

financial brokerage, commercial middleman

alliance-creation, deals

mother's childhood home

auspice of maternal grandmother

In a masculine nativity, the man is attracted to women who can bargain, deal, and negotiate."Getting a good deal" is a valued skill which causes the man with Zukra-7 to feel pleasure in the company of the woman who can do it well.

Typically the native with Zukra-7 meets the life partner in a diplomatic setting, often an arranged meeting, which is intended to begin the bargaining process. Can be a"date"a rranged by a mutual friend or the family-sponsored first meeting of a matrimonial negotiation.

The implicit or explicit purpose of the first meeting is specifically to assess the partner's credentials and trustworthiness, for contractual union.

300 Important Combinations 1912-1998 JyotishiB.V. Raman enjoyed a marriage arranged by his grandfather, almost entirely without consultation to the native .

As recorded in"My Experiences in Astrology", Shri Raman's estimable wife Rajeswari was 12 and he was 18 upon the occasion of their marriage, which was negotiated according to the proper
folkways, ancient customs, and established cultural norms of the place and the time.

They enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership, due in part to the wife's inclination to support and promote the husband's career. Zukra-7-Simha is a capable harmonizer but not too strong.

When Zukra is strong in yuvati sthana, karako bhavo nashto = "too much of a good thing", applies.

Emphasis on material pleasures in marriage and business partnerships. The ephemeral sweetness of Zukra tends to deprive the relationship of depth and stability. Yet this spouse is definitely an asset for business entertaining and public socializing. Superb karaka for the"two person career" in which the diplomatic, harmonizing spouse plays a key but not dominating role.

Especially helpful for career of male;

in fact, without the spouse it would be fair to say that a male with Zukra-7 cannot have a career to speak of. Marriage improves the public life and reputation.

Love of human company, fine dining, parties, harmonious design, luxury travel and seeking out new pleasure experiences. Favorable for the sexual aspect of marriage, although this channel too tends to lack depth.

In business, good for trading in women's articles, wine, luxury goods. Also good for having a female business partner, whether the native is male or female. Native may be trapped in a pleasure cycle, unable to detect non-sensual values in relationship. Karaka for multiple marriages.